It’s getting harder to know each day where Labor stands on youth crime.
Last week Rebecca White slammed our plan for targeting repeat young offenders calling it ‘appalling’.
Today, Labor announced a copycat policy of a ‘dedicated police taskforce to target repeat offenders’.
Sound familiar?
Labor is trying to walk both sides of the street and pretend it’s not soft on crime.
Ms White says Labor is also planning new standalone youth courts in the South, North and Northwest.
But without costing them.
Ms White says Labor will spend $500,000 to ‘scope’ the plan and work out what it will cost.
It’s based on a Victorian scheme that costs many, many millions of dollars a year.
So Labor is planning to spend half a million dollars to find out how much new courts we don’t actually need- but they say they will build – would cost.
In contrast, a re-elected majority Liberal Government will:
- Recruit 60 more police, taking police numbers to a record high of 1521 full-time Sworn Officers;
- Deploy a permanent Police Strikeforce to target serial criminals;
- Deliver a relief pool for frontline police to ensure safe staffing is maintained at our 24 hour stations;
- Introduce stronger penalties for hooning, road rage and vehicle theft;
- Introduce a new law that makes ‘Boasting and Posting’ about a crime an aggravating factor in sentencing;
- Protect children through implementation of the new Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme;
- Deliver ongoing funding for three Arch Centres supporting victim survivors of family and sexual violence;
- Build a new purpose-built Kingston Emergency Services Hub, a Wynyard Emergency Services Hub and a new Rosebery Emergency Services Hub;
- Provide support for Crimestoppers;
- Pilot a new Emergency Services Cadet Program; and
- Increase annual funding to $4 million per annum for our Health and Wellbeing Program for frontline emergency service personnel and volunteers.
